Provocative therapy

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The Provocative Therapy is one of Frank Farrelly developed form of psychotherapy in which with humorous provocation spirit of contradiction, the self-responsibility and self-reliance to be awakened the client and developed.

concept

Provocative therapy was developed by the American therapist Frank Farrelly in the early 1960s . At the time he was working in a psychiatric hospital with severely mentally disturbed patients, and in the years that followed he succeeded in “provoking” many of these patients from psychiatry.

Provocative therapy is a solution-oriented short therapy . In provocative therapy, the playful element is emphasized in therapy. Real appreciation for the client, empathy , rapport , creativity , unusual reactions and self-confidence in one's own intuition are expected from the therapist . The method aims to provocatively challenge constructive emotional reactions and not hurt or offend.

The basic idea is that the therapist humorously satirizes the self-damaging behavior of the client, so that the client himself recognizes his behavior and can laugh about it ("the mirror is held up to him in a humorous way") and he thereby gains greater mental distance and freedom. In addition, the provocative therapist dares to express evaluations that the client secretly thinks for himself but keeps to himself (this is where the therapist's intuition and experience play an important role). It may well be that the provocative therapist makes a disparaging comment (in words) about the appearance or the intelligence of the client, but connotes this differently through exaggerations, voice tone and facial expression ("winking"), and thus offers a reinterpretation . The client experiences that what he secretly thought, of which he was so afraid and what he found so terrible that it remained unspeakable, can still be spoken. And at the same time he experiences a reassessment of the "terrible" so that he can laugh liberatingly and distance himself from the paralyzing thoughts.

Similar to Milton H. Erickson's hypnotherapeutic approach , the client's reactance is provoked to bring about change. The intention is to get the client to contradict the therapist, but thereby contradicts himself and the previous restrictive belief system is weakened, in the best case completely disempowered.

See also

literature

  • Frank Farrelly , Jeff Brandsma: Provocative Therapy . Springer, Heidelberg, 1986. ISBN 3-540-16666-1 .
  • Jürgen Wippich, Ingrid Derra-Wippich: Learning to laugh. Introduction to Frank Farrelly's Provocative Therapy . Junfermann, Paderborn, 1996. ISBN 3-87387-169-6 .
  • E. Noni Höfner: Don't believe who you are! Basics and case studies of the Provocative Style , Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89670-773-4 .
  • Mathias Berg: The provocative approach in socio-educational relationship work , GRIN Verlag, Munich, 2005. ISBN 978-3640800582 .
  • Eleonore Höfner, Hans-Ulrich Schachtner : That would be laughable !: Humor and provocation in therapy. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-499-60231-8 .
  • E. Noni Höfner, Charlotte Cordes: Introduction to the Provocative Approach (Carl-Auer Compact). Carl-Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 3-849-70246-4 .
  • Charlotte Cordes: You're already laughing. Introduction to provocative system work with commented case studies. Edition Coaching & More, Nova MD Verlag, Leipzig, 2018. ISBN 978-3-96111-257-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Farrelly, Jeff Brandsma: Provocative Therapy. Springer, Heidelberg 1986. ISBN 3-540-16666-1 .
  2. ^ A b E. Noni Höfner, Charlotte Cordes: Introduction to the Provocative Approach (Carl-Auer Compact). Carl-Auer Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 3-849-70246-4 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Wippich, Ingrid Derra-Wippich: Learn to laugh. Introduction to Frank Farrelly's Provocative Therapy. Junfermann, Paderborn 1996. ISBN 3-87387-169-6 .
  4. ↑ E. Noni Höfner: Don't believe who you are! Basics and case studies of the Provocative Style. Carl-Auer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89670-773-4 .
  5. ↑ Charlotte Cordes: You're already laughing. Introduction to provocative system work with commented case studies. Edition Coaching & More, Nova MD Verlag, Leipzig, 2018. ISBN 978-3-96111-257-9 .
  6. ↑ Eleonore Höfner, Hans-Ulrich Schachtner: That would be laughable !: Humor and provocation in therapy. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-499-60231-8 .